Let me also indicate that as a member of the Homeland Security Committee, the numbers of Mexicans from Mexico has decreased. The numbers coming now are what we call OTMs, other than Mexican. They are coming and fleeing bloodshed in…
Sheila Jackson Lee
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Sheila Jackson Lee is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 18th congressional district since 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been an advocate for civil rights, social justice, and healthcare reform throughout her tenure. Jackson Lee has served on various committees, including the Judiciary and Homeland Security committees, and has been involved in significant legislative efforts addressing issues such as immigration, education, and public safety.
Let me thank the gentlewoman from California for her astuteness, and, certainly, the manager of this legislation, and our friends on the other side of the aisle. Mr. Speaker, I simply want to try to craft the importance of H.J. Res. 46…
As a senior member on the Judiciary Committee and senior member on the Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Subcommittee, I, too, am glad of the underlying discussion regarding the protecting of women. I rise today to support H.R. 8…
I thank the gentleman for yielding. The only crisis is the constitutional crisis that has been created by the President of the United States by his direct and ill-conceived abuse of power which is noted in the Constitution as a violation…
Just recently, I was very proud and pleased that this body passed my legislation, the Juvenile Block Grant Anti-Bullying and Intervention Act, dealing with the prevention of bullying but, more importantly, dealing with the opportunities…
This is a Republican bill that we are trying to fix to keep the government open and not holding our Federal employees hostage. I support this bill with qualifications that I know that in the 2020 fiscal year, Democrats will put forward a…
This bill that we came to have to fix as a Republican bill was a compromise, but it was a compromise with humanitarianism and passion and compassion. This border security and funding bill that Democrats fixed did some good things. In…
We have spent a very long day in the Judiciary Committee working on legislation to respond to the American people's cry for universal background checks, but I rise as well, in the backdrop of that legislation, to stand for the victims of…
I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts and the gentleman from California for their leadership on this matter. They have discussed this over the months, and I have been pleased to join them in this effort. Madam Speaker, U.S. bombs are…
The clarity that I would like to offer is that none of us should tolerate any shutdown of the government or ever holding our Federal workers hostage to policy debates, and that is for my colleagues and friends on the other side of the…
That is clearly what we are trying to do. If I might engage the gentleman in a dialogue: it reads, ``the Tiffany Joslyn Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Program Reauthorization Act,'' and it has always read, over the years, ``and…
That is my desire at this time. Mr. Speaker, I have no further speakers. Does the gentleman?





